a software based, large-scale regex matcher designed to match multiple patterns at once (up to tens of thousands of patterns at once) and to ‘stream‘ (that is, match patterns across many different ‘stream writes’ without holding on to all the data you’ve ever seen). To my knowledge this makes it unique.

RE2 is software based but doesn’t scale to large numbers of patterns; nor does it stream (although it could). It occupies a fundamentally different niche to Hyperscan; we compared the performance of RE2::Set (the RE2 multiple pattern interface) to Hyperscan a while back.

Most back-tracking matchers (such as libpcre) are one pattern at a time and are inherently incapable of streaming, due to their requirement to backtrack into arbitrary amounts of old input.

'We present the cryptographic hash function BLAKE2, an improved version
of the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE optimized for speed in software. Target applications include
cloud storage, intrusion detection, or version control systems. BLAKE2 comes
in two main flavors: BLAKE2b is optimized for 64-bit platforms, and BLAKE2s for
smaller architectures. On 64-bit platforms, BLAKE2 is often faster than MD5, yet provides
security similar to that of SHA-3. We specify parallel versions BLAKE2bp and
BLAKE2sp that are up to 4 and 8 times faster, by taking advantage of SIMD and/or
multiple cores. BLAKE2 has more benefits than just speed: BLAKE2 uses up to 32%
less RAM than BLAKE, and comes with a comprehensive tree-hashing mode as well
as an efficient MAC mode.'